Author: Yoosuf

Ninety-eight percent of the frigid continent is covered by ice, which is almost on an average 1.1 miles thick. Despite the difficulties to study the ice floor of the continent, scientists have revealed something startling. If you think Antarctica is full of only ice, you may have to rethink. There is a lot of fire beneath the ice sheets of the continent. It is home to a number of extinct and activ...

Does God Play Dice? A metaphysical attempt to answer. The universe and its every forming being, the insignificant, the indispensable and the ones in between, are governed by a law. A law that is characterized by everything earthly unlawful: inconsistent, uncertain, erratic, disarray and anything a fickling human mind can think of disorderliness. All these randomness got together to form an unifyin...

Antibiotic resistance is listed as one of the major six reasons that could result in the end of mankind on planet earth by BBC’s Knowledge magazine. Do you need a proof for evolution? Antibiotic resistance is the evidence. The microbes that were once suppressed by our antibiotics have become much stronger to defy the impact of our drugs. To those who believe in Young earth creationism, this clearl...

Are the summers burning your skin than ever before? If you shout out ‘yess!’ wiping off your tears, then climate change is real. It is evident from the change in the environment around us. Its not just the heat wave. Change in climate brings droughts, rises sea levels, strengthens cyclones, hurricanes, and wildfires and so on. The catastrophic impacts on the environment and everyday li...

Nature has its own ways to recover from any magnitude of damage caused by human beings and their eternal ignorance. It proves the human species its healing power and its ability to replenish lives on lands that are made barren by the everlasting human stupidity. When one among the four nuclear reactors exploded in Chernobyl power station in the Northern Ukraine on 26th April 1986 at 0124, when its...

The first hint of human existence on earth appeared 4 million years ago in a total life span of 13.6 billion years, the age of the cosmos. Passing through various stages of evolution, until 2017, Donald Trump, colonization of Mars, connecting Elon Musk’s brain with a man-made machine, the emerging far-right are the new worries for humans, mostly to those who believe in a young-earth. Among all the...

Get ready to be blown away by machines! We are at the crossroads entering into the next era of human intelligence. Driven by self-less machines. Putting aside the debate and speculative criticisms, development of human-like robots using artificial intelligence is on a rise. Below are some of the top 5 humanoid robots that have been built in laboratories until 2017. Atlas Making its debut in 2013 a...

Dow Jones Index was created in 1896 as an indicator of how well the US economy was growing when 30 of its large publicly held companies did well during a standard trading session. Even today, the DJIA represents an average of the stocks of top 30 companies that are majorly considered to have an impact on the growth or decline of the US economy. Just 30 out of the 4333 (as on June 2016) publicly tr...

Politics has often meddled in religious affairs only to make things worse. During an era where people love their automobiles and pet dogs more than their spouses, any religious values, not only Islamic, would go for a toss. Politics plays a major role in the crushing defeat of religious values for its own gains. If the creation of religion is considered as a major success of politics, then its abi...

Human beings were once wanderers that never got settled in one place. Thrown onto this planet, they treaded different paths, hunted down animals and moved on with their lives curiously in knowing more about the place they were thrown into. Slowly, they became sedentary and started living as communities that paved way for a number of civilizations to arise, each unique in its own way. Archaeologist...

Colombia is just another mundane story of rebellion against social injustice that began 52 years ago. Long before, it was a country plagued with inequality. The government sold its large swathe of land to private owners in the late 19th century or in the early 20th century to pay off the country’s debt. Eventually in 1964, the farmers and poor workers of the land joined to form the rebel group FAR...

Wikileaks is well known for its commitment to uphold truth as it strongly believes that people have the right to know the verity that are hidden by authoritarian states and their crafty politicians. The crusader against these authoritarian regimes, Assange, treated almost synonymous with the website itself, is a man of iron will who strongly opposes the secrecy of governments that claim to be the ...